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If you grew up with an emotionally immature, unavailable, or selfish parent, you may have lingering feelings of anger, loneliness, betrayal, or abandonment. You may recall your childhood as a time when your emotional needs were not met, when your feelings were dismissed, or when you took on adult levels of responsibility in an effort to compensate for your parent{OCLCbr#92}s behavior. These wounds can be healed, and you can move forward in your life....
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Growing up with emotionally immature (EI) parents can leave you feeling lonely, confused, and neglected. As an adult, you may have trouble setting limits, expressing your feelings, and building healthy relationships with others. Gibson offers tools to help you step back and protect yourself at the first sign of an emotional takeover. She shows you how to make sure your emotions and needs are respected, and how to break free from the coercive control...
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"From the author of the self-help hit Adult Children of Emotionally Immature Parents, this essential guide offers daily tips and tools to help readers heal the invisible wounds caused by growing up with immature parents. Readers will learn how to nurtureself-discovery, trust their emotions, and stop putting others' needs ahead of their own, so they can improve their relationships and build confidence in handling life's challenges"--
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"Elizabeth Oates is no stranger to a dysfunctional family. She may look like the quintessential soccer mom now, but her childhood was full of uncertainty, abandonment, and many very dark days. Without a positive role model, an emotionally stable family member, or a consistent community, she had to forge her way ahead just to survive day to day. It wasn't until she was preparing for a family of her own that she began to learn the lessons that would...
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"Is there a silver lining to growing up in a dysfunctional family? Bestselling recovery author Karen Casey looks at stories of people who grew up in dysfunctional families and "the good stuff" that can come from the experience. "Throughout my many decades in recovery rooms I have interacted with thousands of women and men whose journeys reveal, in detail, the harrowing history of dysfunction that has troubled their lives," says Casey. "But what is...
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Confusing.
Crazy making.
Draining.
Does this describe your relationship?
Do you wonder if they will ever change?
Do you want to know why they lie so much...even when the truth would work better?
Have you wondered why they never seem to change—no matter how much you are willing to do for them, or how much love, understanding, rehab, religion, therapy, second (or twenty second) chances you've given them?
If so, you
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None of us were raised by perfect mothers nor can we ourselves be perfect parents. But some mothers sure do know how to ruin a life, well almost. I say almost because, although my mother's parenting left severe damage in its path and, regrettably, and inevitably, shaped some of the decisions I made, I am grateful to have realized the issues I was facing.
So, I now have the opportunity to properly address those issues, to minimize the impact on...
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I am unapologetically broken; I am tired, but I keep moving. I am hurt, but I keep helping. I am delicate and strong. I am intelligent, but I don't have all of the answers. I am giving to a fault, and I am still learning how to ask for help. I have wronged others and I have been, wronged. I have wonderful friends who show up when I need them the most, and I have others who only take; until they took too much. I am still figuring it all out, while...
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"This book is for real, because Libby is for real..."
- Dr. Phil McGraw in his foreword to Traveling Hopefully
Are you living a life based on who you really are or one built on outdated messages from your past? Is your past negatively influencing your present and potentially derailing your future? What if you could shift your perspective from limiting to liberating?
Now you can learn to let go of your baggage and create a life of passion and purpose....
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The pit, the prison, and the promise. The pit is the dysfunction into which she was born. The prison is the "people pleasing" bondage in which she lived for many years, combating piercing wounds and words. Finally, the promise is where she learned to attack her own unhealthy patterns and behaviors and be free from the lies, the snares, and the demeaning and defeating words and wounds.
With deeply informed compassion, Kristy shares letters, lessons,...
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We all experience people and situations that somehow, at some point, lead us to a place of questioning our self-worth. The reason it feels so unfair is because it is." So begins Sandy Wardenburg's book-and her life. Living through rejection, isolation, and decades of narcissistic emotional abuse by her mother, she could have lived as a victim and turned inward.
Instead, she took “Bold Moves” to reclaim her life and live happy on purpose.
The...
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How do we recover from a childhood of heartbreaking pain that left us feeling inadequate, unworthy, and unloved? After a lifetime of feeling insecure, how do we restore connection to our true selves?
As Mindi Kessler, PhD, shares her story of recovery from a difficult childhood she shows us how to face the challenges in our daily lives that arise from childhood trauma, including the need to control everything, an inability to maintain satisfying...
13) Making Adult Stepfamilies Work: Strategies for the Whole Family When a Parent Marries Later in Life
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If you are among the growing number of families in which adults with grown children have remarried later in life, you are probably familiar with the conflicts and complicated emotional dynamics that can result. Parents expect that remarrying will be easier because the children are grown up. But, the reality is that these remarriages can cause painful struggles between parents and their adult children. Based on in-depth research by a psychiatrist and...
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IF YOU WANT TO BE A LOSER, DON'T READ THIS BOOK!
This book is for people with popularity status as high as Elon Musk, to the person some may consider musty standing in front of the liquor store. In this book Marlo not only takes you on his journey, but on your journey walking you through the sexual abuse, drug addicted mom, alcoholic abusive dad, homelessness, drug dealing, abandonment, fucked up choices, jail and prison stays he experienced. Marlo...
15) But It's Your Family: Cutting Ties with Toxic Family Members and Loving Yourself in the Aftermath
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A psychologist offers a roadmap for those looking to break free of toxic family relationships and thrive in the aftermath.
Toxic family abuse is always two-fold. The first layer of abuse is the original poor treatment by toxic family members, and the second is someone's denial of the ways in which abusers treat and harm them. Loving someone doesn't always mean having a relationship with them, just like forgiveness doesn't always mean reconciliation....
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From the author of “Adult Children of Emotionally Immature Parents”, this handbook offers essential, practical solutions to help you "disentangle" from emotionally immature people, stand up for yourself, and transform your relationships.
If you grew up with an emotionally immature, unavailable, or selfish parent, you may recall your childhood as a time when your emotional needs were not met or dismissed, and you may have lingering feelings of...
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Martha Engber lives a charmed life in the suburbs with a husband and two kids where everything is fine, fine, fine until suddenly she's... completely broken. She's so used to lying to others and herself that she has no idea who she really is or how she feels about anything. What happened? Why is her life smooth driving one minute and totaled the next?
In this sometimes funny, often devastating memoir, Martha describes the arduous journey toward discovering...
19) Discovering the inner mother: a guide to healing the mother wound and claiming your personal power
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An exploration of the personal, cultural, and global implications of intergenerational trauma created by patriarchy explains how it is passed down from mothers to daughters and how to break this destructive cycle.
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